Reading Material for Engineering & Industrial Statistics 
         
Jorge L. Romeu, Ph.D. 
Email: romeu@cortland.edu 
Web: http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/ 
 
 
Quality and Reliability Institute Web page: http://ecs.syr.edu/faculty/romeu/QR&CII.htm DSIAC Web Site: https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents2 
 
 
 
The statistics papers below are used in ECS526: industrial statistics. 
 
Engineering Education: 
 
Teaching Engineering Statistics to Practicing Engineers http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/17/4A1_ROME.pdf  
 
Statistical Education of American Engineers http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/StatEdAmerEng2012Q2-art3.pdf 
 
Professional Organizations and the Learning of Stats after College Revista Empresarial Inter-Metro; UIA-PR http://ceajournal.metro.inter.edu/spring13/romeujorge0901.pdf 
 
Group Learning, Contextual Projects, Simulation Models and Student Presentations in Enticing Engineering Statistics Students. http://ecs.syr.edu/faculty/romeu/ASAECSEngEd.pdf 
 
The Juarez Lincoln Marti International Education Project: An Example in Statistical Education and Research http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/3/3041.pdf   
 
 
Descriptive: EDA and Distribution Identification: 
 
Data Quality and Pedigree AMPTIAC Material Ease http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/34/33159.pdf 
 
Random Variables and Statistical Distributions:  A) AMPTIAC Material Ease.  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167.5518&rep=rep1&type=pdf B) RAC Journal https://www.dsiac.org/sites/default/files/journals/1ST_Q2001.pdf 
 
 
Empirical Assessment of Normal and Lognormal Distribution Assumptions. RAC START. Volume 9, Number 6. https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/empirical-assessment-normaland-lognormal-distribution-assumptions 
 
Statistical Assumptions of an Exponential Distribution.  RAC START: Volume 8, Number 2.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/statistical-assumptionsexponential-distribution                                              Empirical Assessment of the Weibull Distribution.  RAC START. Volume 10, Number 3.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/empirical-assessment-weibulldistribution 
 
Graphical Comparison of Two Populations.  RAC START. Volume 9, Number 5.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/graphical-comparisons-twopopulations  
 
Inference: Estimation and Testing: 
 
Statistics II: On Estimation and Testing  A) RAC Journal (Page 4) https://www.dsiac.org/sites/default/files/journals/3q2001.pdf  B) AMPTIAC Material Ease  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167.5974&rep=rep1&type=pdf   Statistical Confidence.  RAC START: Volume 9, Number 4. https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/statistical-confidence 
 
The Chi-Square: a Large-Sample Goodness of Fit Test RAC START. Volume 10, Number 4.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/chi-square-large-samplegoodness-fit-test 
 
Anderson-Darling: A GoF Test for Small Samples Assumptions RAC START. Volume 10, Number 5.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/anderson-darling-goodness-fittest-small-samples-assumptions 
 
The Kolmogorov-Smirnov: a GoF Test for Small Sample Assumptions  RAC START. Volume 10, Number 6.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/kolmogorov-simirnov-goodnessfit-test-small-samples   
 
Quality Control Charts RAC START. Volume 11, Number 4  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/quality-control-charts 
 
OC Function and Acceptance Sampling Plans RAC START. Volume 12, Number 1  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/operating-characteristic-ocfunctions-and-acceptance-sampling-plans 
 
Determining the Experimental Sample Size QR&CII Tutorial. Vol. 1 No. 1. http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/ExperSampSizeQR&CII.pdf  
 
Understanding Binomial Sequential Testing  RAC START. Volume 12, Number 2  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/understanding-binomialsequential-testing 
 
Understanding Exponential Sequential Tests https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/understanding-exponentialsequential-tests 
 
 
Modeling: Regression and Analysis of Variance: 
 
Statistics III: Modeling with Regression and ANOVA AMPTIAC Material Ease  http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/32/31672.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/02c0/0a74bc3c94c8179d6f55abc701b0e7032573.pdf Journal of the Reliability Analysis Center. Vol. 9, Number 4. https://www.dsiac.org/sites/default/files/journals/4q2001.pdf 
 
On Regression Analysis RIAC RelTique. Vol. 1, No. 1. http://web.cortland.edu/matresearch/RELTIQUES_V1N1.pdf 
 
Combining data.  RAC START. Volume 11, Number 2.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/censored-data 
 
MINITAB and Pizza: A Workshop Experiment Journal of Educational Technology Systems (JETS) http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/Minitab&Pizza.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237389660_Minitab_and_Pizza_A_Workshop_ Experiment  
 
Measuring Cost Avoidance with Messy Data Proc. of the 2004 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS). http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/RAMSPaper.pdf    Design and Evaluation of Aquatic Ecosystems via Simulation Federal Conference on Statistical Modeling http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.105.349  
 
 
Design of Experiments for Reliability Improvement:  Fractional Factorial Designs  https://www.quanterion.com/design-of-experiments-for-reliability-improvement/ 
 
 
Reliability Modeling and Analysis: 
 
Reliability Estimations for Exponential Life RAC START. Volume 10, Number 7.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/reliability-estimationsexponential-life  
 
Censored Data.  RAC START. Volume 11, Number 3.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/censored-data 
 
Understanding Series/Parallel Systems RAC START. Volume 11, Number 5. https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/understanding-series-andparallel-systems-reliability 
 
Understanding Availability  RAC START. Volume 11, Number 6. https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/availability 
 
Understanding Logistics RIAC RelTique. Vol. 1, No. 3. http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/LogisticsREL_V1N3.pdf  
 
Understanding Binomial Sequential Tests RAC START Vol. 12, Number 2 https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/understanding-binomialsequential-testing 
 
A Discussion on Software Reliability Models  Journal of the Reliability Analysis Center. Vol. 8, Number 1. https://www.dsiac.org/resources/legacy_journals/journal-rac-vol-8-no-1- discussionsoftware-reliability-modeling-problems 
 
Determining the Experimental Sample Size.  Journal of the Systems Reliability Center (SRC)  3rd Quarter 2005; pp. 11-21   Use of Bayesian Techniques for Reliability RAC START. Volume 10, Number 8.  https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/use-bayesian-techniquesreliability 
 
Operations Research and Statistics Techniques:  a key to Quantitative Data Mining http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/ORStatTechInDataMine.pdf 

 Determining the Experimental Sample Size.  Journal of the Systems Reliability Center (SRC)  3rd Quarter 2005; pp. 11-21 
 
Understanding Availability  ASQ Statistics Division Newsletter  Vol. 24, No. 1: Fall 2005 (pp. 4--10) http://www.asqstatdiv.org/documents/newsletters/Fall05StatDiv.pdf  
Updated XI/2018